Free Republic

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly – and every January 1, the press feels compelled to compile lists of the most significant events from the past year. As 2005 slipped away, a fair amount of ink was spilled on what was supposedly a “bad year” for President Bush. Somehow, members of the press managed to overlook the fact that it was an even worse year for them. The speciously named “Plamegate” – a non-scandal about the not-illegal “leaking” of the name of a non-covert CIA agent – was supposed to be the President’s undoing. Instead, it was, in many ways,...